Talk:Localized versions of the Monopoly game

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Contents 1 Debate on title 2 Jinsei 3 Dublin Monopoly 4 German version colors 5 Board Help 6 Colors on the article's table 7 Leeds Monopoly 8 English Cities/Towns 9 Italian edition colors 10 Finnish Monopoly has been redesigned 11 What is this list meant to cover? 12 Other editions

[edit] Debate on title

This title is awful. How about Localized versions of the Monopoly game, or something like that? -- Zoe

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Is it true that in the Congo Monopoly Game everything belongs to Leopold II and there is no game to play ?

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I think it would be a good idea to move this page to a List of variants of the Monopoly game or something like that; that way, we could include things like Star Trek Monopoly and so on in addition to the localized versions we already have here. -Branddobbe 19:04, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

I tentatively concur, but there are so many variants that it could get unwieldy. The Simpsons Monopoly, University Of Manchester Monopoly, Star Trek Monopoly... the list is endless, particularly given the existence of Create Your Own Monopoly (I've seen it in geek shops (Forbidden Planet and such like) in the UK). Kinitawowi 11:55, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

I also agree with both of you (Branddobbe and Kinitawowi). It'd be better to at least call it (rather than List of...) Variations on the Monopoly game, because it would discuss the variations, not list them. Am I right? --D. F. Schmidt (talk) 08:33, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, no, according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions, as a general rule, if you can't singularize it, then it's a List of… List of localized version of the Monopoly game. There should be a small sub-article in Monopoly (game) about localized vartiants, and then that should have a See List of localized version of the Monopoly game And perhaps pull out the section Monopoly (game)#Themed Monopoly games and make a List of themed Monopoly games as well. If you were clever, you could make that shorter themed Monopoly list and refer to it as a template inside the main Monopoly article with {{:List of themed Monopoly games}} until it got too large. But I digress. —Fitch 23:03, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I've started something of a list at List of licensed Monopoly game boards. I'm mostly doing the officially licensed themed boards, by Hasbro, Winning Moves and USAopoly - I'm still debating whether or not to do "official" national sets, I might do that in a forked Monopoly history article, which I think the main article also could use. --JohnDBuell 04:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jinsei

Isn't the game which the Japanese call "jinsei game" a different game? I think that "jinsei game" is the Game of Life, but I'm not sure. --User:Juuitchan

I need to add the Dublin board but the table could get very wide if all the variations are added, so I think we need to rethink the format of this page.

[edit] Dublin Monopoly

The Irish Monopoly contains the streets of Dublin on the board, with one noticable exception - Shannon Airport. The pound version of the game was replaced by the Euro version in 2002.

Standard (Dublin Edition) Monopoly game board layout

GO ⇒		Crumlin (?60)	Community Chest	Kimmage (?60)	Income Tax (Pay ?200)	Busarus (?200)	The Rathgar (?100)	Chance	South Circular Road (?100)	Rathmines (?120)	Jail
Shrewsbury Road (?400)		Monopoly										Dawson Street (?140)
Super Tax (Pay ?100)											Electric Company (?150)
Ailesbury Road (?350)												Kildare Street (?140)
Chance												Nassau Street (?160)
Shannon Airport (?200)											Dublin Airport (?200)
Grafton Street (?320)												Pearse Street (?180)
Community Chest											Community Chest
Wicklow Street (?300)												Dame Street (?180)
Georges Street (?300)												Westmoorland (?200)
Go To Jail			Water Works (?150)			Heuston Station (?200)			Chance		Free Parking
		O Connell Street (?280)		North Earl Street (?260)	Talbot Street (?260)		Henry Street (?240)	Capel Street (?220)		Abbey Street (?220)

Formerly the Red streets were in Cork - Washington St, Oliver Plunkett St, Patrick St. I had heard the new version had Dublin Castle and Govt Bldgs replacing Shrewsbury Rd and Ailesbury Rd, and all Dublin railway stations. Joestynes

[edit] German version colors

Can someone confirm the German colours? This picture of a German board from 2003 (with Berlin streets) http://www.muurkrant.com/monopoly/images/D-nostalgisch-2003.jpg, seems to have completely different colours. Mintguy (T) Also this page seems to use the British colours http://www.bewersdorff-online.de/monopoly/ Mintguy (T) 16:48, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Good point.. and someone needs to fix the table with regards to the colours on the purple/brown properties.. the way it is now has the british version purple. I'd do it, but i'm not good with HTML :( 131.111.8.101 11:04, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Done, but I havent got a clue with HTML either and I still did it. You just need to do some intelligent searching

[edit] Board Help

Does anyone know the properties for Brighton and Hove, Coventry, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hull, Jersey, Kent , Norwich, Reading, Southhampton, Sunderland, Its for my Monopoly board maker and I only need them to compleat my Uk collection Thanks in advance.

[edit] Colors on the article's table

Would anyone mind if I change the background colors of each property to its color, rather than have the label "Green Properties" and "Blue Properties" and so on? It just seems to be a waste of space, and is ungainly. I changed the colors momentarily (not even saving it) and noted that it doesn't work well for the red properties, where there are links to non-articles. It also doesn't look like it would be good for contrast purposes, but the way it is now (with the labels as above) just looks bad, in my opinion. --D. F. Schmidt (talk) 08:33, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

You mean you want every cell in the table to have one of those bright, garish colors? Personally, I think that would look awful. A term that was used in one of my UI courses that might apply was "angry fruit salad". :) Bryan 15:09, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Haha. You're right, now that I think on it a second more. But how about including another column to the left of the set instead of having an extra row? Basically like the board above, I mean. I'm not certain I can do it myself. I'll give it a shot. If it doesn't work, would someone else want to try? -- D. F. Schmidt (talk) 03:30, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Could work, though I need to think more about how to handle the brown/purple set of rows. I'll cogitate on that and see if I can think of something. Bryan 03:38, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Leeds Monopoly

Around 1990, the first non-London UK version was produced for charity and based on Leeds as the home of the manufacturers, Waddingtons. Has anyone any more information?

[edit] English Cities/Towns

Are all the cities listed for England actually cities? I know Reading is definately classed as a town, and I think Wigan may be...

The article is currently written in American, I am not aware of the existence of the ceremonial title of city in the US. In this context, it is appropriate to call any location which possesses more than a certain number of inhabitants city. Regards, Captain scarlet 15:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Use of village/city depends on local laws in the United States. In Illinois, for instance, small communities can begin their formal existence by incorporating as a village, and can later reincorporate as a city once certain standards (generally population levels) are met. I'm not sure that 'town' is actually used formally. --JohnDBuell 18:40, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Italian edition colors

These may have changed with more recent printings, but the colors on the board that I have from the late 1980s/early 1990s (the only clue I have to the exact date is that the license came from the Tonka Coporation in the USA, which dates it sometime between the mid-1980s, when the company was still Kenner Parker Toys, and the buyout by Hasbro in the early 1990s) are different than the one on the list. The first two properties are light purple, the next three are dark blue, followed by three orange, three brown, the traditional red, yellow and green, and dark purple for the final two properties. I didn't want to change the colors in the table in the article unless they are STILL that way in the Italian edition.... --JohnDBuell 19:01, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finnish Monopoly has been redesigned

The Finnish version of Monopoly has been redesigned with new property names. Unfortunately I do not have the new version so I can't list all the new names of the properties. JIP | Talk 08:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What is this list meant to cover?

A lot of editors keep adding the "On Board" or "-opoly" games, which are unofficial editions. Is this meant to be a list of OFFICIAL versions of Monopoly? If so, the unofficial versions should be forked off (and the company Help On Board needs its own article anyway). --JohnDBuell 14:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other editions

This site has a LOT of boards and editions. Maybe someone has the courage to post them here in the page? The link http://www.muurkrant.nl/monopoly/country_index.htm Loool 21:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The list here will never end if we start this :) There is also a long list of "affinity editions" through 2005 in a recently published book, Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game & How it Got that Way. This even includes editions commissioned by corporations for their use. --JohnDBuell 15:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

This begs the question of what qualifies for this list. I am sure that the list does not contain some official localized versions (such as the Latvian one which I added yesterday). At the same time I understand that putting too much is not the best idea. What should and what should not be posted then? Loool 21:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Which echos the question I asked just yesterday. :) I would say that all of the national and city editions should be on this list, hence "localized." I filled in from a master U.S.A. list yesterday (and I know a number of the German cities are missing). --JohnDBuell 21:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)